paddywhack

ah cool!! thanks dave!!

holy cr%p i wss going through some of those links and i saw the medals of katanga and i recoinized one of the medals there!!!! the one for militry mert cross was give to a mate of mines uncle who was a high up medic in the UN (he was irish army) and has a few medals! must get a pic of them all!!!(he has them framed)cant be many of those in ireland!!!!

http://www.emering.com/medals/drc/index.html

sorry had to use the pic on the site!!

anyone know what the zaire medal is for?? anyone seen it before? i saw a similer one for officers on one of the links ed had there!

and of course the back!!

and heres the rep of zaire medal! looks very like the croix de guerre!!

a bit better!!! it just says silver on the back!!

heres my ones from central-ish africa!

botswana(?) long service medal! a real ba$tard to photograph!!!

fantastic bit of reasearch there! amazing what they had to go through to get this medal! id so love to find out what my one was awarded for!! again nice peice!!!!

its mad that iv got medals from syria cuba germany japan russia but non from my own country!!! im going to sort that one out soon though!! very nice pics and info!! good to see another irish man on the forums to!!! happy easter and dont go mad on the chocolate eggs!!!!

want to know how much thomas clarks 1916 rising medla went for in arecent auction???

?105,000 yes thats right!! sadly the font wont make it bigger but after f auction fees of 21% thats 125,000 euros!!! but im not surprized at all at all!!!!!

and a medal bar!! nothing specail but mine so all good!!! i have a doc for one and a single with no ribbion at home so il post em later!!

sorry for bringing it back up but here are my to! a nice officers bar abit beat up i still love it!! (damn which i had my scanner!!)

i always find it mad the way that other ranks get a simple simple silver medal( its still realy beatuful though!!) for doing crazy mad acts but a office gets a lovely enameled medal for not doing to much!!! but whats new i guess!!! great medal and document to!!!

i mean why the HELL would anyone want to put a beauty like that in a vice!!!!!! things people do i just dont know!!! and i to would take a beat up one anyday of the week!!! iv got one but its a wearers copy not a lovely silver one!! and the evil rick kindy got me a ribbion to go with it to so all good in the end!!!

ah cool thanks for that!

iv four of those syrian medals the medal for militery merit,the one for "palastine" (golan heights) war wounded and the one with the white green white ribbion, thing is iv got the orgianl packets for the war wounded and golan hieghts and yup there french made!!! quiet intresting realy!!

ever notice that some countries have just the most amazing awards!!!!! it does put the german awards to shame!!! plus they can well be cheaper to!!!! but nice pick up dave!!

they realy are amazing awards arent they!!!!! are these yours?

the only thing is is that pretty much all of the enamel is gone but i dont care cos how often do you see pre castro awards!!!not often!!!

irish 1916 medals any of them go for mad money there was a big auction on the wensaday the 12 and it was huge! have to see what kinda prices they reached but anything to so with early irish army is worse then german prices!!!

dont have it here with me but when i go home il get it and post pics of it

a right ok that would explain it!! hhhmmmmm i dont feel silly now!!!!!!!!!

you would think they would put the order of victory in the centre of the display as its one of the rarest awards ever!!!!!!! nice display!!

what the eagle he is wearing just above his ribbion bar? iv something similer but i thought they were polish para jump wings!!!

i love these pre castro awards!!!! there is so much detail on them and the enameling is amazing!!!!! i have one and sadly all the enemal is gone!! great peice!!!